Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watnot!watmath!clyde!rutgers!sri-unix!hplabs!sdcrdcf!trwrb!scgvaxd!wlbr!wlbreng1!rich From: rich@wlbreng1.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix Subject: Re: is xenix unix.... Message-ID: <174@wlbreng1.UUCP> Date: Wed, 18-Feb-87 12:27:33 EST Article-I.D.: wlbreng1.174 Posted: Wed Feb 18 12:27:33 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 20-Feb-87 02:09:27 EST References: <3108@gitpyr.gatech.EDU> <626@brl-sem.ARPA> Organization: Eaton Inc. IMSD, Westlake Village, CA Lines: 100 Keywords: xenix, unix, pc/ix... Summary: Real System V for your AT In article <626@brl-sem.ARPA>, ron@brl-sem.ARPA (Ron Natalie ) writes: > > Anyhow, BELL TECHNOLOGIES, a company that sells PC disk drives and PC/AT > clones, sells real system V for the PC/AT. At one time they'd give away > free system V with a disk drive purchase. Their number is 1-800-FOR-UNIX > (catchy, eh?). The company that makes the System V for the BELL machine is: Microport Systems, Inc. 4200 Scotts Valley Drive Scots Valley, CA 95066 (408) 438-UNIX (California only) (800) PC2-UNIX (outside California) And what gives Microport an edge over */ix from ISC and ESPECIALLY Xenix ? a) Cost Runtime System (System V and over 180 utilities) 159.00 Software Development System (Includes a 80286 SPECIFIC compiler) 169.00 Text Preparation System (Nroff, Troff, Spell, Etc.) 169.00 Complete System (All of the above together) 439.00 Unlimited User Upgrade 169.00 (This is not an error!! The whole system WITH manuals for $439.00) b) Real System V Don't listen to SCO, Microsoft or any people claiming that SCO V is REAL system V. If you do any kind of code development and want TRUE code compatibility across System V machines, why bother with a LOOK ALIKE ? Get REAL System V. And if you don't think that's an accurate statement, compile your program using the terminfo library on Xenix. SURPRISE!! And that's NOT low level code either. c) SVID compatibility Are you REAL sick of adb'ing your code ? Microport uses the standard COFF and delivers sdb with the system. This alone is worth $439.00. Where else does SCO Xenix drop the ball ? System Vism SCO Xenix Microport COFF no yes sdb no yes f77 no yes SysV make no yes ctrace no yes cflow yes yes termio no yes profiler no yes crash no yes bdblk no yes dcopy no yes fuser no yes fsdb no yes ff no yes volcopy no yes finc,frec no yes sar no yes sadp no yes diskusg no yes di-troff no yes pic no yes mv macros no yes shl no yes d) Third Party Software There is a massive effort on the part of many of the large third party vendors to port their product to Microport System V. Also, I wouldn't rule out the possiblity of Microport installing Xenix executable compatibility into the next release of their system (V.3 for the 80386 due in July). I do not make all of these claims based on vague second hand knowledge. I use AT&T system V on Vaxen and 68K Boxes 40+ hours a week. I also have SCO Xenix V on an IBM PC/AT. I have ported applications using everything from ioctl() to reset_shell_mode(). The porting curve (or curse) to Xenix is awesome. NEVER should there be a porting problem of this size going from one System V to another (unless it's System V that you're porting). This leaves me with one conclusion: Xenix V is NOT System V. Ok, I'm through waving Microports flag. You may now flame the daylights out of me. -- Richard L. Pettit, Jr. Software Engineer Research and Development Eaton Inc., IMSD 31717 La Tienda Dr. Box 5009 MS #208 Westlake Village, CA 91359 { voder,ihnp4,trwrb,scgvaxd,jplgodo }!wlbr!wlbreng1!rich